Weekly Syllabus: March 31st-April 4th, 2025
Reminders
No School on Monday, March 31st in honor of Cezar Chavez
The Celebration of the Arts will be on Wednesday, April 2nd and Thursday, April 3rd from 3-6:30
Please continue to work on the Lenten Homework and turn in the grapes and leaves with acts of kindness. Also, take time to look at the Lenten Path packet with ideas for practicing the three pillars: prayer, fasting, and almsgiving.
Religion
We continue to focus on Lent. We will be reflecting on the Stations of the Cross.
Virtue of the month: Gratitude- Gratitude falls under the virtue of Justice- giving to each, beginning with God, what is due Him. Thankful disposition of mind and heart.
Gratitude perfects our will and all our relationships with others, including family, country, and Church. It is the constant and firm will to give to others what they are due. It disposes us to respect the rights and dignity of others, leading to harmony and equality in human interactions.
Saints associated with this virtue are: St. Josephine Bakhita, St. Mary Magdaline, and St. Augustine.
We will be keeping a gratitude journal this month and writing what we are grateful for daily.
Language Arts
Unit 13 Lessons 6-10
Word Work: Associate er, ir, and ur with the er sound. Learn about the trickers ar, or, and ear that also say er, and recognize and use synonyms
Spelling words: bird, third, turn, burn, cold, know, does, laugh, both, and again
Reading: Read memory words fluently (cold, know, does, laugh, both, and again), practice reading at an appropriate rate, listen to and read grade level informational text, understand and draw conclusions about characters and their feelings, and recognize and understand job names ending in er and or.
Writing: We are working on our animal reports.
Author Study: Cynthia Rylant
Mathematics
Number Corner: April brings opportunities to review and extend many mathematical concepts addressed this year in Number Corner. For example, the Calendar Grid reviews fractions by folding geometric shapes, encourages students to define the shapes by attributes, and introduces line symmetry. During Calendar Collector students collect Popsicle sticks that they estimate, bundle into 10s and 1s, represent with tally marks, and use to measure and compare the length of classroom objects. Each of the number family patterns the students have met this year reappear in a 1–120 number grid, and students discover that familiar computational strategies for single-digit numbers can also be used to solve equations with double-digit decade numbers.
We will begin Bridges Unit 6 Module 3: The activities in this module center on story problems. Using their number racks and the fact strategies they’ve been working on, students solve three types of addition and subtraction story problems: result unknown (10 + 4 = ? and 15 – 6 = ?), change unknown (10 + ? = 14 and 15 – ? = 9), and start unknown (? + 4 = 14 and ? – 6 = 9). Students also work with part-whole and comparison situations. Translating story problems to equations is emphasized throughout, and during Session 3 the teacher introduces a new Work Place game in which students work together to draw number cards and arrange them to form true equations. The module concludes with a Unit Assessment.
Social Studies
We will continue our unit on American Symbols. Students will learn about symbols on stamps, the Liberty Bell, the Bald Eagle, Landmarks as symbols, The White House, Mt. Rushmore, The American Flag, and the Statue of Liberty.
